Llanymynech
Llanymynech is a village straddling the border between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, and also Shropshire, England, regarding 9 miles (14 kilometres) north of the Welsh community of Welshpool. The name is Welsh for "Church of the Monks". The town is on the banks of the river Vyrnwy, and the Montgomery Canal travels through it. The boundary competes the most part along the frontages of the structures on the east (English) side of the town's major street, with the eastern half of the village in England and the western half in Wales. The Church of England parish church of St Agatha lies just in England, although the whole village depends on the very same clerical church. The boundary additionally passed throughout the now closed Lion bar, which had two bars in Shropshire and also one in Montgomeryshire. At one time Welsh areas were referred to as "wet" or "dry" depending upon whether people might drink in bars on Sundays. When Montgomeryshire was dry it was legal to consume alcohol on Sundays in the two English bars of the Lion yet not the Welsh bar. 2 of the staying open pubs in the village are totally in England and also the 3rd is completely in Wales. Simply to the north of the village is Pant. More north is the English market town of Oswestry. The English part of the village is in the civil church of Llanymynech as well as Pant, and in the electoral ward of Llanymynech in Shropshire. This ward had a population at the 2011 census of 3,988.
